Re: HTML-based GEPs?

[Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>]

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 12:05, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Gergo,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 12:20, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to store the GEPs in some easy-to-datamine
> > XML format and then use XSLT to create
> 
> 	Doubtless; but I'm more interested in content than all of that jazz.

I think this would be a great idea for the GEPs.  You might want to try
using the simplified DocBook DTD if you do not want to design a GEP
specific DTD.
 
> > I'm not volunteering for designing the XML format, but I'd happily help
> > with the XSLTs.
> 
> 	If you want to do it - feel free; tag beforehand and markup the
> existing files while there are only a handful - but I'm personally not
> thrilled about anything that involves significant user tools; I've been
> burned too badly by gtk-doc/jade/sgml/stylesheets/whatever-comes-next in
> the past. Perhaps that sort of thing works perfectly on stock installs
> these days - I don't know.

I'd like to say jade is a plague which XML solves very nicely.  The only
user tools you will need is Daniel's fine libxml2 and libxslt.  Those
contain all the tools you will need to do the conversions Gergo is
talking about.

Eric Baudais